3 year-old Etana Bennett was shot early on Sunday morning while she slept with her parents inside their Gill Street home. She succumbed to that gunshot injury to her temple, after clinging to life for almost 40 hours.
Her death has caused major public outrage because another innocent child has become a casualty of a gang war that she had nothing to do with.
In response, police stepped up their presence on Gill Street to try and contain any further acts of aggression or retaliation.
So, with police erecting a checkpoint in the area, it should have been safe. But, last night a shooter went back there, and attempted to kill 26 year-old Eric Tillett.
We've spoken via telephone with Tillett's girlfriend, and she told us that at around 8:30, they both arrived at their Gill Street home on his motorcycle. They were about to enter their yard when a man emerged from an abandoned lot, and fired a single gunshot at Tillett. The bullet hit him in the left calf, causing an entry and exit wound, and it broke one of the bones in his lower leg.
He was rushed to the KHMH in a police mobile, and his girlfriend tells us that he is currently recovering well.
Tillett's girlfriend tells us that they don't exactly know who the gunman is, but she suspect that Baby Etana's murder has caused Gill Street to become a crime hotspot.
But, while his girlfriend tells us that they didn't see the gunman, we know that police are looking for a known suspect from the area.
Notably, police had a checkpoint set up near Etana Bennett's family home. Tillett and his girlfriend live a short distance away, and because Gill Street has a curve, the cops couldn't see when Tillett was shot. The shooter managed to escape through the empty lot from where he came. We found the police checkpoint right in front of Tillett's home. The cops re-positioned it there early this morning.
We note that baby Etana was fatally shot on Gill while Treyshawn Gough was killed one street over, on Nurse Findley Crescent in March. Neither murder has been solved.
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